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| Date | | Number: 2 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Notes | Features in this issue include Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog, Dan Hastings, Buck Stacey, Knight Off, Scoop Cody, Bob Phantom, The Silver Fox, Corporal Collins & Sugar, Honey and Huggin. Artists in this issue include Charles Biro, Jack Cole, Irv Novick, Bob Wood, Norman Danberg, Dick Ryan, Maurice Gutwirth, Bob Allison and Clem Getter. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page | |||
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| Name | Blue Ribbon Comics 2 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 431785. Produced by Chesler Publications for the fledgling M.L.J Magazines, Inc. Louis H. Silberkleit is recorded as editor on the first published Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1939. Abner J. Sundell was working as editor for Louis Silberkleit's pulp publications and could have acted as editor on the early M.L.J comic books. |
| Cover | Featuring Rang-A-Tang / 1 page |
| Genre | Animal |
| Characters | Rang-a-Tang |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Norman Danberg, but Danberg was a writer, not an artist. |
| Comic Story | The Vandemeer Arson Case / Rang-A-Tang (10 pages) |
| Genre | Animal; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Rang-A-Tang (dog); Detective Hy Speed; Vandemeer (introduction); Pierre (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Norman Daniels (signed) |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Credit ID's by Martin O'Hearn. Writing formerly credited to "Will Harr ?" and art to Norman Danberg. Jerry Bails's Who's Who indicates Edd Ashe may be the artist. |
| Comic Story | The Platinum Asteroid / Dan Hastings (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Barnes asks Carter for his daughter Gloria's hand in marriage, he's rebuffed because he's middle-aged and poor. Carter is more interested in a meteorite that he's convinced is made of platinum and he sends Barnes and Dan Hastings to stake a claim. Barnes calls upon Jan Crissman to help him ambush Hastings and steal the ore. Hastings fights both off, and Crissman abandons Barnes and flees. Barnes comes to his senses, and confesses all to Hastings. He even proves his reformation in saving both Hastings, himself and the ship when Hastings falls unconscious after destroying Crissman and his ship. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's daughter); Crissman (villain, introduction, death); Arnold Barnes (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Ken Fitch |
| Pencils | Clem Gretter |
| Inks | Clem Gretter |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Dan Hastings" feature. Gretter is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and faces, hands and figures are very much like his signed stories in US Marines Comics #1 and in Ray and Gail from DC Comics. |
| Comic Story | A Bad Bargain: Part 2 / Buck Stacey (5 pages) |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Buck Stacey (range detective); Sandra Cummings (rancher); Steve Vance (crooked rancher); Ben Hackerman (foreman) |
| Script | Bill Allison |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Buck Stacey" feature. The faces and realistic horses are all identical to his credited stories in Cowboy Western Comics #38, and Hi-Lite Comics #1. |
| Text Story | Experiment in Death (4 pages) |
| Feature | Dan Hastings |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dan Hastings; Dr. Carter; Bob Carter; Gloria Carter (Dr. Carter's daughter) |
| Script | Ken Fitch |
| Pencils | Clem Gretter |
| Inks | Clem Gretter |
| Notes | Art notes as for the Dan Hastings story. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Knight Off |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | Fire! Fire! |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Knight Off" feature. |
| Comic Story | Enter: The Marvel / Scoop Cody (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A white masked individual called The Marvel helps Scoop track down King Carr. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Scoop Cody (newspaperman); the Marvel (introduction); King Carr (villain; introduction) |
| Pencils | Charles Biro |
| Inks | Charles Biro |
| Notes | Faces with prominent chin, and large hands look much like Biro's early work, as in Corporal Collins in this issue. The "Scoop Cody" feature previously appeared in Star Comics (Centaur, 1938 Series). |
| Story | Strange but True (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smoking, football and ukulele. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Characters | Alfred Langevin |
| Pencils | Bob Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Wood (signed) |
| First Line | The man who smokes with his eyes |
| Comic Story | The Stolen Porridge / Sugar, Honey, and Huggin' (2 pages) |
| Genre | Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Sugar; Honey; Huggin; Willie Wolf (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Pencils | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Inks | Dick Ryan (signed) |
| Comic Story | In This Corner! "Billy" Conn! / Sport-O-Grams (1 page) |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Sports |
| Characters | Billy Conn (boxer) |
| Pencils | Bob Wood (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Wood (signed) |
| Notes | This is the only appearance of the "Sport-O-Grams" feature in Blue Ribbon Comics. It will next appear in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series), starting with #1 (February 1940). |
| Story | Do You Know? (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Script | Richard Speed ? |
| Pencils | Richard Speed ? |
| Inks | Richard Speed ? |
| First Line | That the persimon tree is a source of food... |
| Comic Story | The Scourge of the Underworld / Bob Phantom (6 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney] (introduction); Butch Brady (introduction); Dan Danning (introduction); The Purple Gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Harry Shorten ? |
| Pencils | Irv Novick (signed) |
| Inks | Irv Novick (signed) |
| Notes | An earlier feature named "Bob Phantom" appeared in Star Comics #1 and Keen Komics #1. It was about a stage magician who also fights crime, and was not the same character or the same feature. |
| Activity | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Brain-Teasers |
| First Line | Maple |
| Comic Story | Murder on the Ventura / Devils of the Deep (5 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Devils of the Deep [Jim; Bill; Ted] (introduction) |
| Script | George Nagle |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe ? |
| Inks | Edd Ashe ? |
| Notes | Ashe is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The "Devils of the Deep" feature previously appeared in Funny Pages (Centaur, 1938 Series). |
| Comic Story | Sabotage at the Balkan Oil Fields / Secret Assignments (5 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Spy |
| Characters | Jack Strand (introduction); Parker Halsey (introduction) |
| Pencils | Maurice Gutwirth |
| Inks | Maurice Gutwirth |
| Comic Story | Origin of the Silver Fox / Silver Fox (5 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | The Silver Fox (a police chief, introduction, origin) |
| Pencils | Maurice Gutwirth |
| Inks | Maurice Gutwirth |
| Comic Story | The Coming of Corporal Collins / Corporal Collins (5 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Corporal Collins [Jim Collins] (introduction, origin); The Nazis (villains) |
| Script | Abner J. Sundell ? |
| Pencils | Charles Biro ? |
| Inks | Charles Biro ? |
| Notes | Biro is credited as a creator on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
| Text Article | Your Second Helping (1 page) |
| Feature | Just a Moment |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | editorial, various artists |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
